My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

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The Swiss Light Source is a major scientific research facility known as a synchrotron. Researchers from all over the world come to the Swiss Light Source to make use of the intense pulses of light to gain insight into the systems that they study. Clearly it takes a lot of people to keep such a facility running, from technicians, to scientists, cleaners and security personnel. As the demand for time at the synchrotron is so high scientists first have to propose the experiments they would like to perform. A committee then chooses the best proposals to grant ‘beam time’ to. The length of these grants are typically 5 days, during which the synchrotron (ideally) runs 24 hours a day. So remember to bring some colleagues along to share the load!